JAZZ IS LIKE HEROIN TO ME ! ! ! ~~~~ ILM POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL - THE RESULTS COUNTDOWN (now counting top 25!)

Destination Out is great. McLean, Hutcherson, and Moncur collaborated on a few records around this time, maybe most notably Moncur's two GREAT records "Evolution" and "Some Other Stuff." If I'd gotten my act together to vote for this, both of those would have made my top 20 easy (Some Other Stuff probably top ten).

I saw the reunited band in Grant Park in Chicago in the 90s. Everyone was great, except Moncur. Nevertheless a great event.

cool, yeah moncur's records are ones i've been meaning to get to.

It will blow your mind!

The Moncur Mosaic Select set is probably the way to go: has Evolution, Some Other Stuff, and the McLean records he's on.

aren't all the mosaic boxes long OOP?

Nope, some of them are just "Running Low."

the "select" boxes are usually more available, i think. this one is on amazon, anyway. but i think i could get all the albums it covers for cheaper separately. anyway, listening to Destination Out right now -- sounding awesome.

21    Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners (1957) 2220 Points, 15  votes
http://www.terra-san.com/ccmail/jazz/Jazz%2020/TheloniousMonk.BrilliantCorners.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5V9uC1fklKKnY2ufNfFvR9

hmm I don't know Unit Structures. what's it like? fantastic cover!

i know the mosaic boxes I'd like are long OOP

maybe a little bit challopsy, but i've never gotten too into brilliant corners, something about it seems like a bit of a chore, it's missing the humor/playfulness of my favorite monk recordings? I don't know, maybe it'll click at some point.

hmm I don't know Unit Structures. what's it like? fantastic cover!

It's like this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_woT6Mgp64c

havent heard the mclean, think hes pretty awesome tho generally, impressed this did so well!

that miles record is so so good -- the opening of coltrane's solo on the title track is burned into my brain

(dooo doot doo doot doot doot dooooo...doo doooooo)

yeah, that "round midnight" is pretty much top 10 all time jazz.

would be if he was sportin a jaunty hat

20    Albert Ayler - Spiritual Hat Unity (1964) 2239 Points 17 votes
http://hhbrady.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/spiritual-unity-cover.jpg

Right on. I was hoping this would place in the top 20.

I was actually expecting Unit Structures to make it.

reallllly enjoying destination out, dudes, thanks.

hurrah, must have been one of the cd's i got when i first got into jazz.

19    Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda (1971) 2466 Points, 17 votes, One #1 
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oG9GEI0LKEY/TMVAfsxBrwI/AAAAAAAABZc/kvblgnDH1u4/s1600/cover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6zV55F6W8kh1qe8LHhqRbz

19 Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda (1971) 2466 Points, 17 votes, One #1
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oG9GEI0LKEY/TMVAfsxBrwI/AAAAAAAABZc/kvblgnDH1u4/s1600/cover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6zV55F6W8kh1qe8LHhqRbz

Charlie Parker Story will still place but having doubts about birds of fire and hot rats if they dont show up in the next 5 places. This isnt going to be a jazz canon poll is it?

Alice needs a hat

spiritual robe

her finest moment btw imho

also I listened to Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy last night and I don't really get what sets it apart from any of the other mid-60s Saturn releases. I mean it's great but it doesn't particularly stand out to me...? I forgot about the track with the phone repeatedly ringing in the background, that was funny.

eesh, what an album (JIS). just those opening moments, the bells, the bass, the harp...i like almost all of alice's records, but this one is the ONE.

digging Unit Structures thx guys

Somehow I didn't vote for this...scratching my spiritual head here. Great album.

Alice needs a hat

Nah, her aura is adequate. I do love this album, aside maybe from the oud, because the oud just falls a bit flat compared to what I'm used to it sounding like.

started listening to machine gun, but it's not quite what i'm in the frame of mind right now. herbie hancock seems to be doing the trick though, as usual.

Wow, Ayler as an intro to jazz, that's intense. One of the things I picked up at Amoeba was a used Japanese import of Lonnie Liston Smith - Astral Traveling. I've never heard him before, and for some reason expected some funk, but it's more cosmic. Very nice.

I'll try to guess the next entry - Headhunters (I guessed Alice too but saw it's just posted)

Here's 16 albums we haven't had yet:

Ascension
Blue Train
A Love Supreme
My Favourite Things
Giant Steps
Mingus Ah Um
Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
Out To Lunch
In A Silent Way
Bitches Brew
Kind Of Blue
Sextant
Headhunters
Karma
The Shape Of Jazz To Come
The Real McCoy

The last one might be iffy, but it deserves to be right up there.

I'm glad we reached the stage where no-one shouts too low and are just happy the album has placed.

I'd say all of Nick's are locks, but yeah dunno about that Tyner album

i voted for it! so ... maybe? it's great, but anything with tyner/elvin jones is pretty great.

Seandalai did you mean that there is no more Sun Ra? I was sure Nuclear War would go top twenty.

18    Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970) 2554 Points, 17 votes TWO #1's 
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EfH7QQM5cK8/TJ50O3qTt_I/AAAAAAAAGRE/gF6kJ4v1Ds8/s1600/%5BAllCDCovers%5D_miles_davis_bitches_brew_1991_retail_cd-front.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1wVO8nHzgcim0IBzbXnYX0

curious that everyone loves miles but no one fucks with dude who he "gets all his inspiration from" ie ahmad jamal

Tempted to shout TOO LOW! but I'll leave it be. My favourite Miles album.

I've only picked through this thread (not sure I'll ever make it through all of it:), but I'm interested in what deej is saying about Sun Ra and Pharoah Sanders. Maybe you've done this already, but could you post your ballot deej?

I was sure Nuclear War would go top twenty.

why?

because Yo La Tengo covered it?

deej didn't vote matt

i missed the deadline & im at work & my rough ballot is on my home comp but i can post it when i get back

curious that everyone loves miles but no one fucks with dude who he "gets all his inspiration from" ie ahmad jamal

thought you were gonna say Betty there for a minute lol

I was sure Nuclear War would go top twenty.

Is this generally seen as one of Ra's more significant records? I listen to it less than any other Ra.

hmm yeah, was jamal even on the ballot?
he's a big missing piece of this poll.

id say that based on these results the biases seem to be basically 'large figures w/ extensive discographies' (depth as opposed to breadth) + the mystical hat club of spiritual outsider jazz discussed earlier

it is what it is